Places Edited by Manta

A small square that sheds its troubled recent history with its surrounding artworks, some of which are not without controversy.

This historic, pentagon-shaped fort houses the City Museum.

This iron building in the Amazon allegedly shares an architect with the Eiffel Tower.

An intentionally grounded cargo ship remains half-buried in the sand.

A beautiful museum filled with thousands of chairs.

A mysterious, abandoned Chinese building in Mexico pays homage to the area's East Asian immigrants.

This work of public art symbolizes the maritime history and the modern creative industry in Fremantle.

The final resting place of a legendary science fiction author and his fraternal twin sister who died as an infant.

Housed in a 20th-century prison, this small museum recounts local Nicaraguan myths.

This series of paintings celebrate a locally beloved snail species.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

Constructed on the ruins of a convent, this tower saved countless lives.

In the middle of this historic colonial city resides a modernist government building known as the UFO.

This covert museum showcases booties worn by a rescue dog and slippers owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

This anthropological museum offers a glimpse into the lives of the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon River Basin.

History is on display in this hall, which has served as the seat of city government for centuries.

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Mexico’s first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.